Steel Band Winners Are Announced - New York Times - 1999
The winners of the annual Panorama competition for steel bands, which is part of
the lead-in to the West Indian American Carnival parade today in Brooklyn, were
announced yesterday. Twelve bands participated in the event, which took place on
Saturday night on the grounds of the Brooklyn Museum.
Four bands played arrangements of ''In My House,'' a song by Oba, and two of
them took the top prizes. The Pantonic Steel Orchestra won the $9,000 first
prize with an arrangement of ''In My House'' by Clive Bradley, whose arrangement
of the same song for Witco's Desperadoes was the winner at the 1999 carnival in
Trinidad in February.
Pan Rebels, with an arrangement of ''In My House'' by Len (Boogsie) Sharpe, won
the second prize of $7,000. Despers USA, last year's first-prize winner, won the
$5,000 third prize with ''Ganges Meets the Nile'' by David Rudder, arranged by
Denzil Botus and Scipio Sargeant.
The other bands, which each got a $575 fee, were the Metro Steel Orchestra,
Casym, Umoja, Sonatas, Ad Lib, Sesame Flyers International, Pan Phoniks, Women
in Steel and Taso USA.
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